Cotton-chopper.



No. 848,385. PATENTED MAR. 26; 1907. W. E. MOUNGE & S. L. SOUTHERN.

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COTTON CHOPPER.

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WILAU E. MOUNOE AND SAMUEL L. SOUTHE N, OF ALBERTA, LOUISIANA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

Specification. of Letters Patent. Patented March 26, 1907 Application filed November 19, 1904. Serial No. 233,633.

To all whom it may concern.- to insure efficiency in the operation. The

Be it known that we, TILAU E. MoUNcE beam 9 does not extend downwardly to the and SAMUEL L. SOUTHERN, citizens of the full depths of the sides 5 and 6, and beneath United States, residing at Alberta, in the the beam 9 and secured at their rear ends in parish of Bienville, State of Louisiana, have the angles between the sills or sides and the invented certain new and useful Improvebeam' 10 are forwardly-converging harrowments in Cotton-Choppers; and we do herebeams and 26, in which are engaged the by declare the followin to be a full, clear, standards 27 of the cultivator-shelves, which and exact description of the invention, such serve to treat the earth at both sides of the as will enable others skilled in the art to row of cotton. The beam 9 is let into the upwhich it appertains to make and use the per faces of the beams 25 and 26, and the lat same.

ter have openings 28 therein through which This invention relates to cotton-choppers the axle 12 is passed. and it has for its object to provide a cheap Let into the upper faces of the beams 11 and simple construction which will operate and 8 are plow-beams 29 and 30, to which to till the soil and to chop out the cotton are secured plow-stocks 31 and 32, each of at intervals to leave stands of cotton at which consists ofaplate bent upon itself with proper intervals, other objects and advan its bight portion 33 disposed downwardly and tages of the invention being understood from its extremities receiving the plow-beam bethe following description.

tween them, said extremities being connect- In the drawings forming a portion of this ed by bolts 35, which serve to clamp the specification, and in which like numerals of stock to the beam. A brace 36 is pivoted at reference indicate similar parts in the several its lower end between the sides of each stock views, Figure 1 1s a top plan view showing a upon a pivot-bolt 37, passed through the chopper embodying the present invention. stock, the upper end of the brace being slid- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the chopper. Fig.

' ably engaged through the corresponding 3 is a rear elevation of the chopper, a port on plow-beam and having nuts 39 and 40 disof the frame being broken away. Fig. 4 18 a posed, respectively, above and below the detail view showing the means for throwing plow-beam and which serve to adjust the the chopping mechanism into and out of gear. brace through the beam to adjust the plow- Iieferring now to the drawings, the chopper point to various angles to the earth. The comprises a frame including the side sills 5 plow-points are shown at 39 and are bolted and 6, to which are connected the front and to the stocks in the usual manner. The plowrear cross-pieces 7 and S and the intermediholding beams 29 and are additionally seato cross-pieces 9, 10, and 11.

cured by means of rods 41 passmg trans- Journaled in suitable hearings in the sills 5 versely through said beams in front and in and 6 is a rotatable axle 12, to the ends of rear of the stocks or standards 31 and 32 and which are fixed the wheels 13, and on the axle extending through the sills or side members 12 within the frame is splined a bevel gear- 5 and 6 of the frame, said rods being secured wheel 13, 111 the hub of which 18 a peripheral by means of nuts 42,wh1ch are disposed adj a groove 14, having engaged therein the collar cent to the plow-beams and also adjacent to 15 at one end of a lever 16, which is pivoted the sills of the frame. In this manner an exupon the cross-piece 10. The lever at its rear tremely rigid and effective structure is pro end is provided with a handle to facilitate latvided which is well able to resist any strain to oral shifting of the lever and corresponding which it may be subjected and which firmly movement of the bevel-gear'13 into and out supports the chopper-carrying shaft. A of engagement with the second bevel-gear 18, tongue is let into the upper faces of the carried by the chopper-shaft 19, which is beams 7 and 9 and may be provided with the journaled in the beams 10, 11, and 8. Upon j usual draft appliances for hitching draft-anithe shaft 19, between the beams 10 and 11, is j mals. fixed a hub 20, from which radiate the arms l/Vhat is claimed is- In a machine of the class described a frame 21, having at their extremities the chopping blades or hoes 22, upon which are secured the structure including side members or SlllS and cross-pieces connecting the same and affordchopping knives or hoes in proper positions ICC ing bearings for the chopper-shaft, plowi In testimony whereof We affix our signacarrying beams gained into two of the crosstures in presence of two Witnesses. pieces in Which the chopper-shaft is jour- VVILAU E MOUNOE naled, bindin -rods extending transversely through the siils of theframe and through SAMUEL SOUTHERN the plow-beams, and tightened nuts upon Vitnesses: said rods adjacent to the sills and to the plow- I J. W. LUCKY, carrying beams. W. P. LUCKY. 

